[TriLUG] Re: Debian apt-get dist-upgrade

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 09:11, Corey Mutter wrote:

> I did an upgrade from potato -> woody this way on a couple of machines
> (it really pleasantly surprised me how things Just Worked). Didn't
> have to change my apt sources - the way I noticed woody was out was
> when "apt-get upgrade" wanted to upgrade a whole mess of
> packages. ("stable" changed)

Did you have your sources listed as "stable"?  If so, that
would explain not having to change the sources.list file.
Stable recently changed from potato to woody.  I would
imagine, however, that if you had had it listed in sources.list
as potato you would have needed to change it?

Tanner
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